Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

Per my inside army participation, there was no chance for my enemy to do anything, and I didn't need to act or attack anymore.

I just stood there, motionless, while waiting for my players to defeat and kill everyone. My image alone was enough inspiration for my players, as they started doing double their best when they felt their town was safe.

I watched the end of the fight with my thoughts focused on my enemy, this enemy wasn't easy at all to handle. So far, every time I clashed with him, I always was on the back foot, not able to even read his mind, or anticipate his next moves.

That wasn't a good sign, as that meant my enemy understood me perfectly while I was still blind! I needed to learn more about him, study all his previous tricks and schemes as I was sure I had ignored many of his signatures amidst all this mess.

As I was thinking about that, the whole challenge was over with the last player falling dead, announcing my victory.

"System prompt: Dragon mechas guild has won the challenge. The Trinity guild is expelled from Onterla town, being homeless. Dragon mechas guild has won the town ownership, granting him the reward of five village slots and one city slot available for the guild to open."

The system prompt just ended, and all my players here cheered, and started to celebrate. I just glanced silently at them, as I just smiled and said nothing. They had all the right to celebrate, as I intend after this battle to make a huge revolution inside my guild.

The level and the skills of my players were shown to be greatly lacking, at least in comparison to those from Trinity guild. I knew my players were hastily recruited, had no time to be disciplined or trained by my top players, but this wasn't enough excuse for me.

I needed them to be ready at any time for any war. A situation that happened here today had proven how much I lacked in the common players, the elite players, and the top players categories.

I lacked in every aspect away from the leader rank! And that was quite disturbing.

I moved my thoughts towards Aria and her groups, they were a perfect candidate for me to add to my guild. I knew that Trinity guild was strong because of such a move, adding already established groups under their ranks, and that really helped them gain such momentum.

However, I knew how hard it was for me to add my friends' groups to my guild, especially if they weren't the owners of these groups, and they didn't have the final say in these matters.

Should I pouch their top players then? Start an inward mutiny in their ranks? Evil ideas started to pop up, however all of them required time and machination, and above all the readiness for me to lose my friends.

And frankly, I wasn't ready to lose anyone right now, or in the future. The time and effort wasted in pouching others should be invested in raising my own players ranks.

I had an indisputable weapon, my demon, which would act as a carrying rocket for my players from now on. I just had one more battle, then I would focus everything on raising my guild strength as a whole.

"Let's go back inside the town," I said to my top players, while taking back my demon and started to walk towards the town gate. The players around me kept cheering madly when I crossed their paths, as they were extremely happy, and I was really happy for them.

However my mind was already heavy with thoughts, so I just kept smiling, waving my spear in a sign of victory, and just enjoyed their loud cheering and excited shouts.

"My princess, Lady Nada has sent for you," Diana suddenly said, as she received one NPC guard at the main town gate. I nodded, as I was already heading towards there.

"Rody, I want you and others to start organizing the guild. Leave them to celebrate for a bit, then start arranging dungeon raiding groups, and don't forget about the lifestyle section, it's very important."

Rody stood in front of me, with exhausted face and his gears were all covered in blood and mud as he replied:

"This will take sometime to arrange."

"I know, so don't waste time and start now," I replied, as I went towards the main street of the town while saying:

"Diana will come with me, and you will be ready for another battle soon."

I didn't need to turn to see their faces, but I was sure they were very shocked right now. Diana walked beside me, with an exhausted, yet strangely excited face.

"Will we attack another town?" she asked.

"Sure, there is another town I have to demolish first before sitting in and focus on leveling up."

"That's amazing, is it like this town? With a guild of its own?"

I smiled as her excitation was really admirable. "Yeah, but I will need to arrange things first with Lady Nada, after all we have many burnt down buildings that need our attention."

This strike of my enemy this time was really quite painful.

The journey towards the mayor's mansion was really quite disturbing, as many players were running here and there, celebrating with the victory achieved by my guild. I watched all of this chaos and suddenly realized something.

These players weren't part of my guild, instead they were all part of the supporting groups belonging to Aria and her friends. That meant they were already seeing my guild as part of their own, which was a good sign, a very bright atmosphere.

Greed was the root of all troubles, I reminded myself again, as if I tried to do anything dirty to them, even if it was deeply covered and wasn't discovered, I would risk losing this good atmosphere.

I started to see things differently right now, as I thought about assigning some missions to these groups in the future, like trusting a town or two to their players in the near future.

Doing that might help to elevate many pressures over my shoulders, and that would be really helpful for me to focus on advancing my players' levels. As for my dream to make them enter my guild, I had to postpone it, as if they didn't ask for it, I would never have to offer anything to them at all.

I reached the mayor's mansion in one hour, as the streets were really bustling with a lot of celebration. Along the way, though, I spotted many burnt down buildings, as lines of smoke were still rising endlessly from their ruins.

I just glanced at this sad scene, reminding myself that it could have been worse, much worse than this. Despite knowing the risks I was facing, and the deep pit I just avoided, this didn't help lighten up my mood, as this was indeed a massive loss to my town.

"Esteemed hero of our town, our Lady is waiting for you inside."

The moment I reached the mansion, I was welcomed by a tattered scene of it. The battle that happened here was so brutal and chaotic, leaving many scars already apparent on the mayor's mansion, represented in many holes here and there.

I even saw the first wall and my demon passed through and was already gone! It must have collapsed when I went to chase after the assassins. I didn't pass through any of these holes, despite me making them, mainly, and went through the main door of the mansion, or what was left of it.

What welcomed me inside was another chaotic scene, where the interior of this mansion was already destroyed. I sighed, helplessly, as time was gold and at that time I didn't have the luxury to take the normal path towards the heart stone of the town.

I saw Lady Nada sitting alone, amidst all the rubbles and dust, without anyone else there with her. "Stay here," I softly muttered to Diana, who just nodded, obediently waiting for me outside the mansion.

I just walked calmly towards her, and the moment I approached her, she said, like speaking to herself:

"Trying to conquer the world while your house is on fire means you will lose it all!"

Her words were so deep, and sudden, but I understood her meaning very well. I just nodded, grabbed a seat and sat beside her, amidst all this rubble.

"Your enemies have approached the esteemed guardian, asking for a truce between the two of you," she said, while raising her depressed head, taking a deep long breath that made me feel how tired and sad she was.

"Truce?!" I exclaimed in surprise and denial, and before I could say anything, she just replied:

"You have a lot of holes in your home, your own forces are just weak and unorganized that an army of less number of players made them struggle. You have no capable trusted subordinates, with two towns under your responsibility, one with a quest to be a city, and the other is on the verge to turn village."